WIS Stock Sector Benchmarks
With Global Insight's WIS Stock Sector Benchmarks, industry information has been tailored specifically for financial analysts. With the same comprehensive coverage as the World Industry Service, Stock Sector Benchmarks data have been classified into stock-market sector "peer groups" using the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICSŪ), the most popular stock market classification scheme (managed by MSCI and Standard & Poor's). With Stock Sector Benchmarks, financial analysts gain access to fundamental indicators of sector performance on a country, regional, and global basis. Stock Sector Benchmarks is ideal for use in asset allocation, security valuation, and sector rotation and risk management. With the WIS Stock Sector Benchmarks, you will be able to:
- Identify growth prospects for company cash flow and earnings through comparisons with sector benchmarks
- Quantify the macroeconomic impact on expected sector profit performance
- Determine leading and lagging sectors in the current and future business cycles
- Research and validate sector investment strategies against historical performance
- Determine the impact of sector earnings growth on common stock-market price indexes
- Calculate expected trends in profit margins and sales growth
- Monitor and anticipate changes to the risk profile of sectors
Housed in an easy-to-use navigator platform, WIS Stock Sector Benchmarks present country-by-country sector metrics as time series and organizes them by industry to complement "bottom-up" analysis of individual exposures with "top-down" analytical rigor. These sector benchmarks line up directly to familiar GICSŪ sector price indexes. Moreover, these measures retain the crucial advantages of the WIS, insuring they are comparable, consistent, comprehensive, and easy to access.
Service Features
- Truly global coverage including all sectors in each of 72 countries, with region and global totals
- Unparalleled expertise and a unique methodology that fill the voids across numerous global databases to provide a single, robust source of fundamental sector metrics
- Consistent indicators across countries and sectors to enable you to make informed, timely investment decisions
- Complete coverage of all the top-10 sectors in the GICSŪ, with more than 50 additional sub-sectors and industries also included
- Sector data indicators include financial statement items such as top-line revenues, operating earnings, and capital expenditures
- Sector aggregations comprising the entire economy, to maintain "top-down" consistency with macroeconomic data and forecasts
- Historical data from 1980, forecasts extend out 10+ years
- Access to senior-level analysts
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